Plants vs. Zombies Forum

Hi! I recently got the Steam version of Plants vs. Zombies:GoTY and I haven't been able to get it to start. The installation went through without any issues, but it fails to load without any error. I'm using Crossover 9.2 on Ubuntu 10.10. Has anyone gotten this to work?

I'll look into this tomorrow, I'm out of time today. But I ran pvz on 9.1 and ubuntu 10.4 without issue.
Are you running it on an emulated desktop (from withing winecfg) or full screen?
If the latter try going to winecfg and changing the graphics tab to emulate a desktop (size shouldn't matter) and let me know what happens.

Still loading fine on mine. Did you try the emulated a window option from winecfg?

Ok tried on a new bottle and was able to replicate the problem. I guessing the GOTI version might have an extra dependency my regular steam bottle already has. I'll get back to you on what I find.

Oh brother, what a mess.

But I think I got it to work. It's a problem with the video card I think.
To get it to work:
Run winecfg on the the Steam bottle with pvz goti. (You might need to have a separate bottle just for this game.)

On the config dialog select the Graphics tab
put the Vector Shader Support to None
and uncheck the Allow Pixel Shader box.

Open up steam and launch the game. Try it twice (without closing steam) the first time for some reason failed for me.
Go to options and unselect 3D acceleration. I would also unselect full-screen but that's my personal preference.

The game should play normally now.

Then close the game and steam, launch winecfg again and restore the Vector Shader Support to Hardware and Allow Pixel Shader box back on.

You should be good to go. Let me know.

Thanks for looking into that for me! I tried your suggestions and I was able to load the game. Thanks a lot!